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Flushing Rings Up Retailers

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Brittany Hutson

Updated July 16, 2010 12:01 a.m. ET

If Queens were a separate city, it would be neck and neck with Houston as the fourth largest in the U.S., with a population of 2.3 million. Yet the borough has had only one regional shopping mall—until now.

In the business district of Flushing, one of the densest areas in New York City, Sky View Center, an 800,000-square-foot shopping mall, has started to open its doors.